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Short sight & Oversight (the ballad of Marc Tessier-Lavigne)

December 18, 2022 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 4 Comments

The Stanford president’s uncomfortable shortcomings in terms of research integrity will come as no surprise to those familiar with the dynamics of scientific career progression.

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The iron law of scientific oligarchies

October 9, 2022 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 3 Comments

The scientific community has entrenched oligarchies. Science would be better served if they were broken up.

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Funding scientific ecosystem services

June 5, 2022 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 1 Comment
“Small village in Ukraine”, by Konstantin Kryzhitsky (1884).

Shouldn’t be we funding scientists as well as researchers?

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Research, and Development (a lament for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer)

December 5, 2021 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 3 Comments

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I’ve been thinking about Ole Gunnar Solskjaer a lot in the last week… Continue reading →

The invisible hand of the market

November 24, 2021 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 2 Comments

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Scientists like to claim – rightly – that they’re free to do research into whatever takes their fancy, but getting funding for it is a different matter. Continue reading →

Live and let die

September 12, 2021 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 2 Comments

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Vincenzo Camuccini “La morte di Cesare”

An aversion to asking tough questions in the here and now can lead to a messier and more painful outcome in the future. Continue reading →

Excluding elites

June 9, 2021 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 4 Comments

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Artwork by Mark Palfreyman.

If ever there was a word that needed reclaiming from the faux culture wars stoked by right-wing media machines, lost and wounded in an online no-man’s land of internecine strife, it is “elite”. Continue reading →

The 9 types of grant reviewers

March 7, 2021March 14, 2021 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 4 Comments

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Artwork by Mark Palfreyman

We’ve already looked at the 9 types of peer reviewers, but you tend to encounter a slightly different breed when it comes grant reviews… Continue reading →

Don’t be falling down

January 24, 2021 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 2 Comments

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“The sense of hearing”, by Philippe Mercier

A group leader carries the responsibility of securing funding for the group, but it’s a burden, not a secret. Continue reading →

Graves’ inversion

March 6, 2020 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 5 Comments

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M. C. Escher, “Day and Night”

A thought experiment: what if career security in academia was inverted, and the positions of junior and senior faculty were reversed? Continue reading →

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